Lord of All History, Nations and Sovereignty

In the First Reading today we see the temporal
power to rule and direct the human groups or
societies or states, comes, therefore, from God
and our God is not only the God of history and
of the Jews but the God of the entire universe.
This same God is one who uses human
instruments by bestowing upon them the many
gifts of the Holy Spirit to allow man to prepare
for the life to come at the end in the letter to
the Thessalonians. Since the life to come at the
end of time carries more importance. Man’s
primary aim in life must be to reach that
kingdom. He must, in other words, find out and
fulfill his duties toward God; he must "give
back to God what is God's." However, man
mustn’t neglect also the building of the common good. He shares in the mission of
Christ in witness to the Gospel through the transformation of the temporal order in
his profession in the secular world.